So, I work with elementary aged children. I just considered the hand washing conversations that would need to be had. Let’s please leave this concept entirely alone.

You thought ALL these things in 20 minutes? I am amazed. And terrified.

“You the moral to the story you endorsing”

You should either transition back to history or be sure to put materials together in a unit plan package for history teachers. You know as well as I do that without packaged resources, new teachers aren’t going to make dramatic shifts in teaching (they’re terrified of losing momentum in a classroom) and veteran…

He’s on the right side of the Ram ad stuff and did a good job of pulling up original documentation about secession for Civil War deniers. He’s on the wrong side of almost anything with nuance or in which white men might be asked to just shut the fuck up for a minute.

NEDD is Not Enough Day Drinking, the person who immediately pushed back against your suggestion that more support go to Black candidates with the ahistorical suggestion that we simply find the ‘best’ for the job as though the definitions of merit have not consistently been written and re-written in support of white…

The resettlement of the Egyptian gold market is a piece I hadn’t come across before. Thank you for that bit.

You were right the first time. Where you went wrong is when you listened to a NEDD, who does not care about the Black community, instead of listening to actual members of the Black community while discussing these ideas in an online Black community.

We didn’t do that kind of stuff in ATL............. way back............ when we won that 1 World Series.........

please tell me that ‘mouth service’ was an intentional crack on his stereotypically white liplessness and not an editing miss. because if it is, i love the way it just slides into the paragraph like ‘what? i didn’t say anything about how ugly he is.’

No, not always. Take care that your language does not lull you into determinism. When effort is put into learning and understanding, views shift.

Get to know the social studies standards in your state. ELA, math, science and even PE standards have come up for national review over the past decade or so and, in my opinion, greatly improved. Social studies standards are still on a state by state and sometimes even district by district basis and are reflective of…

That was actually a good apology. He should stay fired, but it was a good apology.

“Bury me where my ancestors jumped from ships because death was better than bondage.”

The article is about slavery and hypocrisy about slavery and the hypocrisy of slavery and ultimately about the normalcy of anti blackness in America. It makes the point that the port of new york was a major port of entry as a way to further these ideas. New York, the intellectual capitol of the north, routinely prided…

I applaud your dedication to form, all the way down to the respellings and apostrophes. Brava, ma’am.

I have a book recommendation for you.

Nope. Go back to the original suggestion. Every white ‘progressive’ considering a run should instead go TO the community and find out whom [s]he could support from the Black or Brown communities. Just stop being ‘Dangerous Minds Goes to the State House’ for a a minute and actually support the communities they would…

“You really don’t even have to leave the Root to do it”

to NEDD, since he’ll dismiss my replies directly to his punk ass: